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breed so varied also, that, to enter minutely into 

 the subject, would require an entire volume of 

 larger extent than I intend this to be ; and 

 further, the tastes of different men are so opposed 

 to each other, that, if I ventured to state my 

 own, supposing some might allow that taste to 

 be tolerable, others might anathematize it as 

 execrable. 



If Mr. Osbaldiston was so situated as to be 

 imable to look out for a hunter for himself, had 

 not friends, better judges than I, ready to take 

 this trouble for him, and therefore wanting a 

 better agent, fixed on me for the purpose, I ven- 

 ture to think I could suit him, as I should look 

 for what I should quite like for myself. But if 

 a young gentleman fresh from the east of Lon- 

 don wanted his Jirst horse, I should be, as Pat 

 says, " bothered entirely." My only chance of 

 pleasing him and most probably his friends would 

 be, to get him som.ething as unlike what I or 

 most of my friends would be pleased with as I 

 possibly could. 



All this is quite right. " The Squire " liked his 

 horse Clasher ; so should I very much if a touch- 

 me-not gate was before me, or indeed if it was 

 not. Our young English Nabob would like a 

 prancer. All right again. May " the Squire " ever 

 get all he likes ; and if our Eastender is a good 

 fellow may he get what he likes also, and find a 



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